SKANEATELES NO. 5 A 15' double-ended pulling boat

摘要

If we had published drawings for the 15' Skaneateles No. 5 pulling boat a century ago, you likely would have turned past this page with little notice. Fine-ended, easily driven boats of about this length were so common then as to be part of the waterfront equipage. Despite their popularity, we might have been hard pressed to find measured plans for the type. Although builders often commissioned pen-and-ink perspective renderings (as above) for their sales catalogs, they found no need for reproducible construction drawings.